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Selling Ramazan

Whenever the month of Ramazan comes, Muslims become hyper-sensitive with respect to their religion. It’s as if all their sins would be washed away in a single month. Don’t get me wrong, Ramazan has it’s ‘more than fair’ share of virtues but the hypocritical nature of Muslims disgusts me! A whole year passes by, with Muslims indulging in all sorts of sins but as soon as Ramazan comes, they turn into ’self-proclaimed slaves of Allah’.

During this month, we see a LOT of religious programs with ‘hate-spewing self-delared-aalim jaahil’ anchors and commercials with religious inclinations. Now, people may see this as an act of servitude to Allah but I think otherwise. These people are using Ramazan to make more and more money, by exploting the ’sudden need to be near Allah’ amongst the people. In other words, they are selling Ramazan!

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21 Responses to “Selling Ramazan”

  1. lizzie says:

    emm…. I am not against all this though..:S

  2. Raza says:

    Its like every other ritual in every other country in the sense that it is a target of marketing campaigns. I think people also like seeing such ads during this month, but yes the sudden abundance of religious programming during this month is kinda hypocritical in a way.

    • SAWJ says:

      These people come up with things like “Ahteram-e-Ramazan” prices and “Coke Ramazan”, now how did they brand Ramazan as Coke Ramazan? To what depths can they fall to earn a few dollars?

  3. Jawwad says:

    what about the price hike? in west they tries to slash the prices during xmas time but here…

  4. siras says:

    Oh, everything is commercial! they just need an excuse to make money!

  5. Anas Imtiaz says:

    This is how marketing works. Azan on phone, Aalim on mobile, ehteraam ramazan or hashmi ispaghol :D
    Instead, I was more curious to know more about the sudden mushrooming of so many welfare organizations and NGO’s suddenly asking for Zakat paying such hefty amount for the airtime. Wonder how they spend money??

  6. Asma says:

    Yeah as if all os us need just 5 rs cheaper pepsi in Ramdhan =\

    Aaata hay nahi par oil tu khooob hi hay =\

  7. Arslan says:

    i completely disagree on the ads… this is all marketing campaign which goes all around the world… Ramadan in Karachi or Xmas in new york…

    these kind of commercial are seen allover the world on special occasions…

    and you have no right to call a Aalim a JAHIL… please prove what are you calling him JAHIL for?

    • SAWJ says:

      You have the right to disagree.

      As for my calling an ‘aalim’ jahil, do you know who I’m talking about?

      • Arslan says:

        who ever you are calling a jahil brother he is a Aalim as you mention and placing the word jahil with an Aalim is unacceptable…

        • SAWJ says:

          I never mentioned he was an aalim. I only said he was a “self-declared-aalim” jahil “anchor”. Now that doesn’t make him an aalim does it? Not with all the fake degrees and the tinted-car-glasses episode? :)

  8. SAWJ says:

    Well, their bad! :P Should’ve had more sense during the elections!

  9. Jawwad says:

    that sense u will never see in future also i bet …

  10. SAWJ says:

    I don’t hope so man, I don’t hope so but I believe you are right. :S

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